From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 4 14:28:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07422 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07408 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodall2.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.168]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA11148 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:28:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id OAA45890 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:28:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 14:28:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Marsh" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: spwd.db error messages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been getting an error message ever since I installed FreeBSD, and I still haven't figured out where it's coming from. I must admit, it seems obvious. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here's the message: Oct 4 13:05:08 ken2 syslog: /etc/spwd.db: Invalid argument I have not done any password work other than that with vipw and the installation shell script. I've not added any users at all - despite other's advice I operate as root user always. Thank you in advance! Here's my syslog.conf: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/cron/log *.err root *.notice;news.err root *.alert root *.emerg * # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log -------------------------------------------------------- Ken Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering --------------------------------------------------------